2017 Conferences

Professor Emeritus of the University of Texas at Austin, USA
Former Associate Dean of the College of Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin, USA

Plenary Keynote Speakers

Professor T. Grandon Gill

University of South Florida, USACollege of BusinessDirector of the Doctorate in BusinessAdministrationEditor-in-Chief of Informing ScienceEditor of the Journal of IT EducationFounding Editor of Journal of Information Technology Education

Professor Shigehiro Hashimoto

Kogakuin University, JapanCouncilor and DeanFaculty of EngineeringFormer Associate to the President

Saint Petersburg State University, RussiaFaculty of African and Asian StudiesHead of Arabic Studies

Professor Olga Bernikova

Saint Petersburg State University, RussiaResearch Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Social Process

Editorial board of the journal "Islam in the Modern World"

Professor Margit Scholl

Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, GermanyFaculty of Economics, Computer Science, LawBusiness Administrative InformaticsReceived a research prize from TH Wildau

Dr. Bernard Wallner

University of Vienna, AustriaDepartment of Anthropology

Co-leader of the working group Anthropological Economics & Demography

Dr. Pawel Poszytek

Foundation for the Development of the Education System, PolandGeneral Director

Member of working groups of the European Commissionand the Ministry of National Education of Poland

Professor Alfredo Soeiro

University of Porto, PortugalDepartment of Civil EngineeringPro-Rector of University of Porto

Founder of EUCEN, RECLA and AUPEC; Vice president of EUCEN and SEFI; President of IACEE, AUPEC and of SEFI; Secretary General of AECEF and of IACEE Council.

Professor Cécile Gardies

National Higher School of Agricultural Education Training, FranceDirector of the IDC collection (information-documentation-communication) to the Cépadues editionsCo-director of the Agora collection research editions educagri

Professor Laurent Fauré

National Higher School of Agricultural Education Training, FranceHead of Education and Pedagogy DepartmentAssociate professor in agricultural equipment education

Dr. Sylvia Mirry

University of Bologna, ItalyFaculty of SciencesDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering

Former visiting researcher at University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bruce Leybourne, MS

Institute for Advance Studies on Climate Change (IASCC), USAResearch Director and Principal InvestigatorMS in Geology from University of Southern Mississippi, USA

Former Navy tenure at the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, NASA's Stennis Space Center

The City University of New York (CUNY), USABronx Community CollegeEducation and Academic Literacy DepartmentResearcher with Dr. Lehner’s Group on Educational Cybernetics and Applications of Cyber Currency in Education and Blockchain in Academic Publishing

President of theInternational Institute of Informatics and Systemic, USAFormer Dean of Research and Development of theUniversity Simón Bolívar, VenezuelaFounding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics

Program Committees Co-Chairs

Dr. Jeremy Horne

President-Emeritus,Southwest Area Division,American Association for theAdvancement of Science (AAAS), USA

CEO - Inventors Assistance League, USA

Professor Michael Savoie

Utah Valley University, USADean of the College of Technology and Computing

Former Director of theCenter for Information Technology and Managementat the University of Texas at Dallas

Professor Hsing-Wei Chu

Lamar University, USAChair of the Department ofMechanical Engineering

Professor Thierry Lefevre

Director CEERD, Thailand

Centre for Energy Environment Resources and Development

Dr. Eng. Sushil Archarya

Robert Morris University, USASchool of Engineering,Mathematics and Science

Software Engineering

Dr. Reza Sajjadi

University of Texas at Arlington, USADepartment of Industrial, Manufacturingand System Engineering